Starting out as webisodes, or whatever the hell they are called, Blood and Chrome is a sequel to Caprica and a prequel to Battlestar Galactica. And if that seems like a bad fraking idea, it is. Set ten years into the Cylon War, we meet the young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino) as he first goes to Galactica. He is an in your face fly-boy so cocky he makes Top Gun's Maverick look shy and retiring. No sooner does he get to the Battlestar than he is sent on a 'routine' mission with Lieutenant Coker (Ben Cotton) and the mysterious Dr. Becca Kelly (Lili Bordan). Well you just know it is not going to be routine and our plucky trio soon find themselves in Cylon space. There are a few confusing and poorly staged battles. So much is going on that it all blends into a glorious mess. The CGI, if that's what it is, has a very Babylon 5 retro feel. Anyway, somehow our hapless trio find themselves on some planet or other. In truth I had, quite literally, lost the plot by this point. I found Adama, Coker, and Dr Kelly all pretty annoying and I kept waiting for the story to kick in, but it never came. Writer Michael Taylor, seemed more interested in pointless action than characterisation and plot. And, as we know, the success of the Battlestar Galactica reboot was built on character and plot. When the Cylons finally turned up they looked like General Grievous with hemorrhoids.
All Blood & Chrome succeeded in doing was reminding us how good Battlestar was and what a shameit was the dark and intelligent Caprica failed to find an audience. On this evidence it is probably time to, sadly, finally decommission Battlestar Galactica.
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